WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition

WolfQuest is honestly one of the best animal games I've EVER played. The realism, genetics system, family dynamics, and overall experience of living as a wolf are incredible. However, my biggest criticism is that I wish there was more to do. After a while, the gameplay becomes very repetitive. Most of your time is spent defending territory, hunting, and raising pups. While those are important parts of a wolf's life, wolves do so so much more than that. Wolves spend a lot of time exploring, playing, scavenging, resting, and socializing with their pack. Wolf packs are families first and hunting groups second. Maintaining those family bonds is a huge part of their lives, but in WolfQuest, social interactions feel very limited. A couple howls or play bows can instantly raise affinity, and then it's back to hunting and reinforcing territory. I also wish scavenging played a larger role. Real wolves take advantage of carcasses whenever they can, but in the game there aren't many opportunities to take over kills or find carrion. Most of the time you're hunting for yourself. None of this changes how much I enjoy WolfQuest. It's still one of my favorite games, always will be. I just think there's a lot of potential for deeper social interactions and more varied activities that would make pack life feel even more realistic and engaging.

This game is perfect! In some parts made me cry but It's amazing that it can bring out so much emotion in you that you thought you never had! And I even made a Song after the Family/Pack I had to cherish it forever! To you Devs Please keep adding more to the game! It's fantastic! I can't stress that enough! You guys are Awesome! Thankyou so much for making this come true!

Excellent and realistic game. I've followed the dev's work since wolfquest classic, definitely recommend.

There are way, way too many small things that add up to make playing this game unenjoyable over time. Bugs that render ironwolf saves unplayable are genuinely unacceptable; the current Mate and packmate AI is extremely frustrating to deal with. Why is it that I am required by the game to move my location when moving location is such a pain? Why do my packmates just sit there and do nothing when I am required to move to the "summer home" -- and then why, for the love of god, does using the system meant to help you corral these packmates/pups not work well at all? I'm tired of using the commands given and seeing nothing at all happen. I watched my packmates starve the pups and themselves to death because of a bug. I had packmates carry pups AWAY from food, then watch them starve. my packmates will literally carry the pups in the opposite direction of where we're all going, and then everyone ELSE follows them that way. I've bought all the dlc for this game, I've supported these devs, but the last few days of buggy, inconsistent gameplay have ruined the game for me and I've played it for YEARS. for YEARS. when my packmates are actively DETRIMENTAL to the experience, i no longer want to play. i'm finishing this wolf's lifespan and then i may actively see if I can get steam to refund this mess, because Im sorry, but when your socialization cooldown starts while I'm trying to save my pups from being killed and then as a consequence they no longer listen to me and die -- or when I, on an ironwolf save, watch enemy packmates just magically FLOAT to my packmates in groups of 3 or 4 before slaughtering them effortlessly while my packmates can't even hit back? i feel like i deserve a refund for all the support i've given, given that the game is now in an actively worse state than it was years ago. the devs push realism, but at the same time, they refuse to allow anyone to try and fix their sloppy combat, so your wolf winds up getting torn apart because of glitching opponents -- but don't forget, realism, so you can't mod in fixes! it's realistic for a group of two wolves to try to fight your pack of 11 on four separate occasions! it's realistic for grizzly bears to be less of a threat to your pack than coyotes! if you like the game, fine. cool. but try playing it for any large period of time. it's intolerable and frankly inexcusable that there are these many issues. unironically allowing a modding scene would at least make this tolerable while the dev team fixes the mess, but you can't even get a temporary bandaid solution. and if you read all that and your takeaway was "you're just mad because mods arent included", save us some time and don't bother responding, because you're missing the point on purpose and i'll just block you.

Are you someone who has a hyperfixation on wolves? Are you perhaps a wolf therian or otherkin (or anything else under the alterhuman label)? Do you enjoy realistic wildlife sims or survival games? Do you want to learn more about wolves? If any of the previously mentioned things are true about you, you couldn't find a game better for you than this one. The gameplay is super fun and engaging especially for a game marketed as an educational game, the depiction of wolves is incredibly accurate and well researched, the game features both single player and multiplayer, and there are very few bugs. This is the best wolf sim out there, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to experience the life of a wolf in the wild.

I've played WolfQuest for a long time now, there's much to admire certainly, but there's a few things that honestly bring the game down. The gameplay loop is hooking, the repetitiveness of it is incredibly charming, it brings structure to your gameplay but has subtle variation each year. It really does simulate life as a wolf whilst making it engaging. My issues with this game however revolve around movement and graphics. The movement in this game is far from smooth, it feels jagged, laggy and hard to control when you have to face multiple targets. The wolf model's torso is stiff, it does not bend side to side at all, causing the animations to seem very static. It only gets worse in multiplayer, players almost teleport into different places and it's hard to gauge their actual location when they move. The movement as a whole I believe needs more focus, it's one of the most important parts of a game and it definitely impacts my opinion. Perhaps my biggest critique is the wolf model. I don't see very many people comment on it, but I do wonder why. This wolf model has remained the same for years, all of the other animals look incredibly lifelike but the wolf. While the textures make it more appealing, it needs to be reworked to align better with all of the other animals in the game because it does look low quality. Being the focus animal of the game, I believe it should look better than the NPCs but as it stands, the NPCs look better. I have no doubt that so much time and care goes into this game, but I do think that these issues need to be considered.

A lovely redo of a classic. Lots of nostalgia for folks my age, but I suspect still enjoyable for new players.

I really wanted to play this game, but even after tweaking quality settings, I've got nothing more then unstable framerate with quite ugly AA. It's not bottleneck in my system as there is more enough room to breathe. My review is "Negative" as experience was mixed, maybe after some patch or some driver update I'll try again.

I bought this game the second it came out. From 2.7 to now this came is beautiful and so fun. I love every aspect of it!! Totally a must buy if you love playing as animals!!

I used to play this as a child when it was first released. Its very nostalgic. I love the music, the enviroment and all of the improvements over the years. Such a brilliant game